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ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

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From: Gary Price
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

ResourceShelf Newsletter
Number 303 March 22, 2007
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Resource of the Week: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped

By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

National Library Week isn’t until next month (April 15-21), but an
interesting press release from the Library of Congress (LoC) crossed our
radar screen this week describing the extensive services of LoC’s National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). We felt that
this outstanding free program — now in its 75th year of operation (who
knew?) deserved some attention. In an era of large-scale government waste,
fraud and abuse, Resource of the Week: National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped

By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor

National Library Week isn’t until next month (April 15-21), but an
interesting press release from the Library of Congress (LoC) crossed our
radar screen this week describing the extensive services of LoC’s National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS). We felt that
this outstanding free program — now in its 75th year of operation (who
knew?) deserved some attention. In an era of large-scale government waste,
fraud and abuse, this service is truly an excellent use of your tax
dollars..

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—–Original Message—–
From: r at reinke dot cc
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:01 PM
To: Shirl Kennedy
Cc: Gary Price
Subject: RE: ResourceShelf Newsletter 303

> this service is truly an excellent use of your tax dollars.

Dear Ms. Shirl,

At risk of being considered a grinch, hateful, or a loon, permit me to object to an “excellent use”.

Taxes are theft. AND, when you have to use force to fund something, then that to me is the hallmark of a bad idea.

You have to take into account the “hidden costs” view as first expressed by Frederic Bastiat, 1850 http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html and think about what is precluded by this “excellent use”.

Taxes, and their “excellent uses”, are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.

They are immoral because you are initiating force on another human being.
You have no right, authority, or justification to do that. By benefiting from that force, one becomes complicit it the brutality of it.

They are ineffective because while this may be an “excellent use”, you can’t tell what better “excellent uses” were precluded from being created. When the government gives a “free good”, it is impossible to compete with it. If a service is provided by a marketplace, it is “molded” by competitive pressures. It has to deliver value for what it charges. It is also necessary to attract paying users or it shuts down. When do gooferment programs “close down”? Never.

They are inefficient because you are paying a tremendous overhead. The gooferment makes it impossible to measure precisely how inefficient, but in the USA the federal “handling fee” is guesstimated between 50 and 75%. So, if the Federal Government does something, anything, it is by definition more expensive than if has to be. For example, the Salvation Army has an overhead of about 15% and the 911 Fund (gooferment run) was in the 80% range.

So, let’s talk about the “excellent use” that you cited.

If there was a real need and no gooferment program occupying the “space”, then there would be a business or charity to fulfill that demand. I don’t think, even with the tax load USA-ites are under, they would have any trouble raising funds. Look at the 911 fund, the Tsunami, or Katrina.

Add in the fact, that the gooferment denies us the opportunity to be charitable, and deny us the ability to properly “choose” and supervise our donations.

So, I would urge you to reconsider your cavalier attitude to basically what is “loot”. There are NO “excellent uses” for taxes except refunds to the payers!

IMHO,
fjohn

{Note: Challenge “socialist” thinking at every opportunity. Good people are deluded by the gooferment’s propaganda into thinking that gooferment can do anything that we could not do better, cheaper, or faster if left on our own. The Intelligent Designer gave us brains. Let’s use them. From time immemorial, us weak hairless monkeys have taken over the planet by VOLUNTARY cooperation towards mutual goals. Only recently, have some of use been infected with this mental virus of “socialism”. The meme of “government” has hurt us worse than any other idea in our history. Perhaps, “religion” but that’s another topic for another day.}

http://keenefreepress.com/kfp040107.pdf

The Free State Project is having an impact. All the “trouble makers” are moving there.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w10.html

http://tinyurl.com/2uwsx8

Death Squad in Delaware: The Case of the Murdered Marine
by William Norman Grigg

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According to the lawsuit, Lt. Brown, Derek’s murderer, “has violated the constitutional rights of others in the past through the improper use of deadly force and has coached other WPD officers on how to lie about and/or justify the improper use of deadly force.” Rather than being cashiered, Brown was promoted – just as one would expect of any other dishonest, cowardly thug in the service of any other Third World death squad. Derek J. Hale survived two tours of duty in Iraq, a country teeming with Pentagon-trained death squads, only to be murdered by their home-grown equivalent.

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Yup, the police are “our friends” and they are just here to “protect and serve us”.

http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/poor_richard.html

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

– Ben Franklin

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/174948

http://tinyurl.com/ywjg5r

Tucson Region
Wanted: A little time with soldier dad
School balks at excusing absences for GI’s kids
By Carol Ann Alaimo
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.23.2007

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When her husband comes home to Tucson on leave from Iraq, Keila Rios could face a dilemma she finds infuriating. She plans to take their children out of school for a week to spend time with their Army dad. But when she asked for makeup work they could do at home, she initially was told they’d receive zeroes if they didn’t go to class.

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Here’s a good example of why the gooferment should be separated from the skoolz!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods63.html

The Revolutionary Candidate
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

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Think of how much less interesting, indeed how downright intolerable, this election cycle would be without Ron Paul: a bunch of hacks and drones, not one of whom would make a single substantial change to Washington, D.C., if elected. Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani may as well drop the pretense and just run on the same ticket, for heaven’s sake. And since they’re part of the same racket, they both despise Ron Paul much more than they dislike each other – another excellent endorsement of Dr. Paul, of course.

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It’s hard to imagine what the “mainstream” candidates will make of him. I can see Hillary shooting flames about the “children will die without the village”. And, Rudy will say “guns kill people”. Ron Paul will have to be as deft as Harry Browne to get the sound bite message that “freedom is our birth right”!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/
suprynowicz63.html

http://tinyurl.com/3demfy

Interested Defenders of ‘the Peculiar Institution’
by Vin Suprynowicz

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What did the state or local government do to earn the thousands of dollars in “property taxes” they seized from you last year, other than warehouse other people’s children in their mandatory homogeneity camps while whining that they can’t possibly be expected to help bring them all to a state of complex literacy (in one language, not three or four like the Europeans) in a mere 12 years unless we start giving them a lot more than the current $10,000 per child per year?

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I’m doing taxes this week end. Another example of how I am enslaved!

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/
tle409-20070311-03.html

http://tinyurl.com/32yvo7

Overreach, Shmoverreach: A Special Note From The White House
by Jonathan David Morris

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“Close the CIA Prisons”: Now there’s a good idea. Here we have special prisons set up in secret places to hold the enemies we catch on the field of war. What would you rather us do, New York Times? Put all those prisoners in American prisons back home? There’s no room for them. Those prisons are overflowing with pot-smoking black people. You can’t fit a round peg through a square hole!

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Best think we can do for and to these pompous asses masquerading as “political leaders” is laugh at them. And, get others to as well.

“Prisons overflowing with pot smoking black people” is a GREAT line.

Because it’s sadly true. The pot smoking part. And the black part. And, there’s a few white people sprinkled in. And, a few non-pot people as well. (Like 80 years old tax protestors.) Everything these days is a “federal offense”. I think the “federal” is pretty offensive. “State” ain’t much better.

Note: The gooferment is the only think that can give you a bad service that you don’t want and make you pay for it. It’s worse than the Mafia.

End the war on drugs. Separate the Gooferment from Medicine, Drugs, and all that stuff.

If I was President, not bloody likely, OK, if I was King, I’d pardon all non-violent drug offenders. I’d end the various “Wars” (i.e., drugs, poverty, Iraq, Iran, illiteracy, teen pregnancy, smoking, did I miss any?).

Yup, under the rule of King Ferd the Last, there’d be some interesting changes. WASHINGTONDC would be restricted to making diktats for the Fifty States, who would be capable of accepting or rejecting. Oh, an federal employees? They’d be dying breed, since there’s be no taxes to keep them in the style they’ve become accustomed to. The USA would protect people from force or fraud. ALL people. That’s it!

Yup, the land of Ferd the Last would be a very happy place unless you were a gooferment leader, an ex-dole recipient, or a Socialist.

Note I said Ferd the Last, because after I empowered the people, there would be no need for, nor any possibility of, another King. George Washington set the standard and lately everyone’s been lacking.

Power to the people. Restricted by the principle of “No initiation of force”. And free of the gooferment!

Network World’s Unified Communications Newsletter, 03/22/07
Spying on your e-mail
By Michael Osterman

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About two weeks ago, the Swedish government announced a proposal that would allow its National Defense Radio Establishment to search for content in international e-mail that entered or exited the country. The proposal, if enacted, would also allow the Swedish government to search through telephone communications, as well.

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Encryption anyone?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/
Mar-18-Sun-2007/opinion/12913879.html

http://tinyurl.com/34rvnx

Mar. 18, 2007
VIN SUPRYNOWICZ:
How will collectivists enforce this new ‘right’ to housing?

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Ms. Unzueta likely means to loot even more money from my paycheck and yours — extending our slavery in violation of the 13th Amendment for that one-third to one-half of the year that we now sharecrop just to “pay our taxes” — thus forcing you and me to fund nice homes for these lazy drunks and drug addicts.

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Vin nails it. When some one has a “right” to something, who pays for that right?

I would assert that we are now virtual slaves to the government. One can’t even guess at the “taxes” we pay. Inflation is a heavy tax on our savings. Unfunded mandates are a tax. The increase cost of things due to diktats from the gooferment are a tax. Every tax a corporation pays is passed along to us disguised in the price. And, everything we buy has lots of gas taxes buried in the price. So, I can NOT even guess at how much tax we are paying.

As far as the “homeless”, when I was working in NYC and when I’d get panhandled, I’d offer food or the “business card” for a local Church (Saint Francis) where they helped the “homeless”. Once or twice my offer was accepted. I even saw a “legless” panhandler on the NYC subway who I later saw on standing on the Path going home to NJ after a hard day at work. I wish I had my camera.

No, there are very few “rights”. And, those rights we have, we have to be prepared to fight for mightly against the gooferment and the fuzzy thinkers of the left and right.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54697

Now let me tell you what I really think
Robert Ringer
Posted: March 15, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

>(Based on the historical evidence, an outrageous person might suggest that we are but two nukes away from making close allies out of Iran and North Korea.)

One would hope that we would recognize that we have made two BIG mistakes before and hope that we’d learn.

If we weren’t mucking about in everyone’s business, then we wouldn’t have troops in (what is that number) ~170 countries. And, irregulars (i.e., spies, bureaucrats, politicians, and such) tripping over each other.

We’re dangerous enough to bring all the troops home and be immune to attack and invasion.

The Department of Defense should be limited to doing just that “defense”. Not nation building. Not meals on wheels. Not disaster relief.

>I hope my words today were straightforward enough for everyone to understand. As they say, be careful what you wish for, or you may get it.

Sure, we did real good in a traditional Third Generation War, gooferment against gooferment. Ignoring the fact that gooferment has been manipulating people since the War of Northern Aggression. (Wilson, elected on peace pledge, steers us into WW1. FDR steers us into WW2. etc, etc, etc.)

How well a gooferment can do in a Fourth Generation War against a state-less adversary appears to be in doubt. Your Third Generation War “solution” would work against North Korea or Iran (It’s a little tough on the innocent men, women, children, and animals in those countries. But what’s a little breakage. Collateral damage.) But it’s ineffective and inefficient in dealing with a Fourth Generation adversary. And, is meaningless in a Fifth Generation War where an armed motivated people oppose the gooferment on their own turf (i.e., note the Russian’s Afghan experience).

>I’ll bet a lot of readers now wish I would stick to being facetious rather than straightforward.

No, I wish you would stick to finding us moral, effective, and efficient answers to our problems.

I’d start with the principle of self-ownership and follow it to its logical conclusions. We have no moral right to drop your “solution” on North Korea, Iran, or California.

If we stopped meddling in the affairs of others, brought our troops home, and became a neutral “porcupine” like Switzerland, then everyone would be a lot happier.

If we ended the dole in the US (i.e., welfare for everybody and every business, regulations and laws that politicians put in to reward friends and punish enemies, taxing everything), then we’d be “wealthier” beyond our wildest dreams.

If we ended the gooferment’s skoolz, then we’d have the smartest people in the world for real (i.e., one wag calls skoolz “the government’s propaganda and reeducation pre-prisons”).

If we had honest money backed by gold and silver as the Constitution specified, then we end the inflation tax and return to the gerbil wheel of impoverishing ourselves and enriching the gooferment.

As with any porcupine, I’d just like everyone to be left alone

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54711

http://tinyurl.com/ypdsba

Gen. Pace vs. Parson Warner
Posted: March 15, 2007
Pat Buchanan
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Pat Buchanan looks at ‘gay’ comment by comparing moral authorities of 2 Marines

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What this uproar tells us is that America is no longer a moral community. On the most fundamental issues – abortion, promiscuity, homosexuality, euthanasia, sterilization, cloning, and the creation of, and buying and selling of, fetuses for research – we are at war. What part of the nation sees as progress, the other sees as depravity.

And where there is no moral community, there will not long be one country. For in a religious or culture war, there is no peaceful coexistence.

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Pat certainly has the ability to hit the nail on the head.

The problem is when we allow the gooferment to be a proxy for community. There is no “nation”; it’s a figment of a group imagination. There are only people.

When the gooferment uses force on us, that’s immoral.

If we were just left alone in peace to find our way, then we’d be so much better off. The problem is when we have to pay for things we don’t want, don’t agree with, or to which we are morally opposed. And every problem he cites is either caused by or exacerbate by the gooferment’s action.

See Pat is a socialist. He want his view of morality to be imposed on everyone. I’m a Libertarian; I want everyone left alone. I don’t want to participate in Pat’s morality. Nor Hillary Clinton’s. Nor Rudy’s. Nor yours.

It’s amazing how many problems go away when we just leave people alone as the dead old white guys tried give us.

My three hot buttons remain: the dole, honest money, and skoolz. Until we tackle those, we can’t reduce gooferment to a size where it really doesn’t matter what it wants to do.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul374.html

The DC Gun Ban
by Ron Paul

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Gun control historically serves as a gateway to tyranny. Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government.

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You have to like the fellow who understands the basic principle.

Governments kill unarmed citizens.

Look at Nazi Germany. Envision what would have happened when the Nazis came to collect the Jews. Even if at each apartment, the Nazis only lost ONE thug. You’d need a whole supply of new thugs. As an example look at what a handful of starving doomed people did with SIX guns and a lot of guts. The held off divisions for weeks. That’s a fifth generation war (i.e., the people against “their” government)! It’s not hard to imagine it today. Look at some of the Hollywood movies. It’ll be deadly, ugly, and bloody. But the people can never be defeated! Temporarily subjugated, maybe for decades, but never defeated.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski176.html

http://tinyurl.com/26zcg2

Do You Dubai?
by Karen Kwiatkowski

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In his second inaugural address only a few years ago, curious George asked this question: “Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?” The jury is still out on the first question, if only because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are inadvertently creating new libertarians at an unprecedented rate. However, the mainstream media’s breathless reporting from Washington and Houston confirms the answer to the second.

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One can only hope that this gives Ron Paul a fighting chance. If they are creating libertarians, that’s good for America. Not so good for all those who suckle at the government. I think there are two Americas. The American of the producers and the America of the takers. Sorry but the golden age of taking is coming to a close. The takers have killed the golden goose. This cow is tired of being milked. While I can’t go to New hampshire as part of the Free State project http://www.freestateproject.org/ … … yet. I can arrange my affairs such that I minimize the amount that can be taken. The TSA infringes rights at airports; I don’t fly. The keystone NYC cops search unreasonably; I drive in. The income tax is oppressive; I don’t strive to earn more. In sum and substance, I avoid interacting with the various criminal gangs masquerading under the guise of government. It’s a fifth generation war. The people against “their” own gooferment. It’s not mine. I do NOT consent.

http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf

The Philosophy of Liberty

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… is based on self-ownership.

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And, this little flash movie is superb at explaining it and the consequences.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2007/03/11/church_state_and_taxpayers/
?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/29346w

Church, state and taxpayers
By Cass R. Sunstein | March 11, 2007

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WHEN THE government has violated the Constitution, who is entitled to complain? The Supreme Court will soon cast new light on this question in one of the most intriguing cases in recent years, a suit challenging President Bush’s “faith-based initiatives.” The legal issue may appear somewhat technical, but the outcome of the case could have broad implications for the power of the executive branch and for the relationship between government and religion.

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Silly taxpayer, you have no “standing”. You just get to pay for the ‘leaders” excesses. Religion, abortion, war, “social services”, eddykaytion, and on and on and on.

We don’t inquire if the sheep mind contribution their wool for coats, or an occasional “sacrifice” for the “leader’s” dinner table. Do we?

So why do you think you should have a say in how your taxes are spent?

The dead old white guys revolted over essentially a 1% tax. You don’t even know exactly what you pay in taxes. We’re sorry progeny to them.

May our chains rest lightly!

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/03/07/
the-coming-economic-collapse-of-the-united-states/

http://tinyurl.com/37ge2e

The coming economic collapse of the United States
By Michael Hampton
Posted: March 7, 2007 11:58 pm

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In summary, the welfare state that the socialists built here from the 1930s (after they destroyed the money supply and created an artificial depression) is going to do the same thing it did when they built it in the Soviet Union. And if their example is any guide, it won’t take until 2040 for the nation’s economy to collapse utterly. It will be sudden and unexpected. It will be horrific. Millions of Americans will die, never knowing what happened. But if you’ve read this far, you will know why: In a word, socialism.

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As a nation, we are heading down the road to a financial disaster. As a people, we have forgotten what made this country great. As an economy, we’ve allowed the political class to sell us down the river.

It would seem that a sound money strategy is the only way to prepare for the rocky road ahead.

We should study the prelude to the Great Depression and the German Hyperinflation as clues to what we will face.

Seed Newsvine

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/
death-by-emergency.html

http://tinyurl.com/2a2ddg

Death by Emergency Plan
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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A strange culture of emergency has taken over this country, and the slightest provocation triggers it. It could be an expected terrorist or just an old-fashioned weather warning. The officials are quick to swing into action, and tell you what to do.

The problem is that these demands are often based on nothing other than government plans that are not in your best interest. It behooves all of us to think carefully about genuine preparedness, which might often involve bucking the system and telling the emergency nazis to mind their own business.

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The best approach to an emergency is simply to let people make their own judgments about how to stay safe. Instead, we have developed a system whereby a central plan goes into effect that applies to everyone. This is why evacuations tend to be mandatory these days, and why you are not allowed to rescue your own children from danger.

This brings us to the final presupposition of emergency management in this country: officials assume that you are their property. You have no rights, no freedom of choice, and no volition of your own that should be respected. Your one job is to obey them, and at least if you are killed, they can have bragging rights that they got everyone to go along.

At some point in the coming years, you will probably face this problem. There will be some emergency in which you will be told to put your life or that of your children in the hands of experts, who pretend as if they know what is best for you. Chances are that they don’t, and this emergency will be the time when you need to think seriously about fundamental values. Is obedience to authority more important than life itself?

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Here’s how the government kills its citizens. It tells them to do the wrong thing.

I’d charge those 8 deaths to the Skoolz and Mandatory Attendance laws. Wouldn’t you? The parents couldn’t get their kids because they were IMPRISONED in the gooferment jail-lite aka the skoolz!

You have to love how Lew rips the argument apart.

It all boils down to do you own your own body. If so, then NO ONE has the right to tell you what to do. It’s your problem. It’s always your problem. The gooferment’s courts have ruled that the gooferment has no specific duty to protect you. So why do people think otherwise.

Choose life. Ignore the gooferment. Make your own choices and deal with the consequences.

Any thing else, you’re just kidding yourself.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

LIBBY JUROR: PARDON HIM
Wed Mar 07 2007 19:21:48 ET

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MSNBC host Chris Matthews spoke with Libby juror Ann Redington on HARDBALL. Juror [#10] says she would support a Bush pardon for Libby.

Transcript:

Chris: You’re for a pardon out of sympathy for the defendant.

Ann: Yeah, I think in the big picture, um, it kind of bothers me …

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Sorry, Ann, your 15 minutes is up. Now is not the time to have reservations. You could have “nullified”. Just like the juries that tried John Peter Zenger. Just like the juries that effectively ended Prohibition. Just like the OJ jury. Just like any juror could do.

If you have misgivings, then you just say “not guilty”. Don’t explain it. Don’t comment it. Don’t answer any questions about it.

Just exercise your sovereign right as a juror and then keep your mouth shut!

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/
iwo_jima_4381.jsp

http://tinyurl.com/3bek9v

Letters to the past: Iwo Jima and Japanese memory
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
23 – 2 – 2007

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Clint Eastwood’s film “Letters from Iwo Jima” finds the humanity behind the brutality of war, thus honouring the past and opening hearts in the present, says Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, author of “Kamikaze Diaries”.

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Only a vet understands that brutal fear.

Even if you were a “biloxi blues” type (i.e., sent home from boot camp because the war has ended) of vet, you’re a vet. In the quiet time of boot camp, you’ve recognized that the training might even kill you.

(Humorously, I had an uncle who in WW1 was assigned to supply at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn. The family would always tease him when he would wear his campaign hat on Vet’s Day. He only held a rifle twice in his military career. Once, during boot camp. And, once to march in the NYC ticker tape parade for V-E day. But, he was a vet. I can still hear him saying to my grandmother “but, Sister, I could have been killed.” Then, when he wasn’t around, they’d have little jests about “killed by a falling pile of blankets”. But, they did always admit he was a vet. I thought the parade part was funny because there was a “shortage” of returning vets for the politicians to praise and a plethora of parades scheduled for politicians to get up in front of their constituents and “run for reelection” by praising the troops and the citizen support. So he had to do more marching in V-E parades than he ever did before. The powers that be stripped places of anyone with two legs and a uniform to march. Many times. Reminds me of today in some respects.)

Only a vet who felt the cool breeze of death understands. Only a vet who’s been under fire really understands. Only a vet who has killed an enemy really understands. Only a vet who’s been on the receiving end of injury or close to harm’s way really understands.

I thought that this was an excellent review. And, one of the comments really struck home.

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It was not called the “Rape” of Nanking for nothing, you know.

While America and the world rightly is horrified by incidents like the My Lai murders, are we now supposed to just ignore and thus condone government-sponsored murder, rape, theft, and arson? I refuse to “un-demonize” the brutal, sociopathic Japanese soldier (of any rank).

Little Boy and Fat Man. Wish we’d had them on December 8, 1941.

J W Ritter
USAF (Retired)

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He ignores the facts of Wilson getting us into WW1, WW1 sets up WW2, and FDR steers us into WW2.

It’s really an indictment of the politicians. Who were not blessed enough, smart enough, or honest enough to steer us around these ghastly wars.

It’s really an indictment of the people who are not blessed enough, smart enough, or honest enough to say, to these supposed leaders, “no”.

Politely, firmly, unequivocally “no”.

So now we should be saying: No more “fresh young meat” to satisfy your needs! Bring all the troops home from all around the world. Now! It’s easy. Everybody gets on a plane, boat, or starts walking home. All travel order only go one way — home! Now!

Dona nobis pacem.

Note: Fixed some typos. 

http://reinkefj.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/04/
597680-a-call-for-separation-of-school-and-
state-the-boston-globe

http://tinyurl.com/yw3mb3

A call for separation of school and state
The Boston Globe
Seeded on Sun Mar 4, 2007 11:14 AM EST
politics, constitution, libertarian, libertarians, government-schools

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Once Americans may have agreed on what children should be taught, but that day is long gone. On any number of fundamental issues, parents today are sharply divided, and there is no way a government-run, one-curriculum-fits-all education system can satisfy all sides. The only way to end the political battles over schooling is to depoliticize the schools. And the only way to do that is to separate school and state.

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Clearly, the gooferment is pursuing its own agenda. Or, that of the 1920’s socialists who wanted a nation of good soldiers / compliant factory workers.

If the state skool can indoctrinate children with what ever the State feels is appropriate, then isn’t it immoral to force the parents to pay for an education that they morally object to. And, then by extension, isn’t it immoral for the State to force anyone to pay for a service that they object to.

If the State is my agent to whom I empower to act on my behalf, I can not give it powers that I don’t have. If all men are endowed by their Creator with the same rights that I have, then no one has a right that I don’t have. So if I can’t do it, then no amount of adding others, like me, doesn’t give the State any different power then I would have acting alone.

I can’t force some one’s child to go to my school, then the State can’t force parents to do it.

I can’t force you to give me money even if I call it taxes, neither can the State.

It is all just immoral. As well as being ineffective, inefficient, and just wrong.

http://south-brunswick.blogspot.com/

http://pacpub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17916611&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425716&rfi=6

http://tinyurl.com/2kt5a6

State unveils aid hike
By:Joseph Harvie, Staff Writer
03/01/2007

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School, township officials expect impact to be small.

Increased state aid will have only a small impact on this year’s school and municipal budgets, say officials who are preparing the spending plans.

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Does anyone ever think that maybe, just maybe, we can’t afford education?

After all, does it really seem moral to force senior citizens from the home that they have occupied since the year of the flood? Does it really it really seem moral to indoctrinate future voters into the religion of gooferment? Does it really seem moral to teach children values that their parents disagree with? Does it really seem moral to put politicians and bureaucrats in custody of children? Does it really seem moral to engage in a middle class welfare scheme that allows (forces) women to go to work to pay the family’s taxes? Does it really seem moral to make taxpayers overpay for what passes for education of children of other people?

That doesn’t even address the issues of is it effective, is it efficient, or is it even necessary.

When you’re in Camden with a map of Newark, (or via versa), you might find that your asking the wrong questions. It’s not a matter if “state aid”, (That’s a joke. Our stolen money “laundered” thru various levels of gooferment. Minus handling fees of course!), won’t have an impact — big or small. It is a matter of doing what is right.

I think we’re making a very bad mistake.

http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2007/02/barring-jimmy-murphy.html

Monday, February 26, 2007
Barring Jimmy Murphy

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Poor Jimmy Murphy should have known better, but he didn’t. He shouldn’t have returned home to visit his family while he was waiting for his green card.

I can see how this whole thing came about. He’s living in Iowa, his wife’s expecting a baby and they find a good deal on tickets to Shannon and they buy them. What with a baby coming who knows when they’ll be able to come again.

Unfortunately for Murphy, when his visit home was over the US authorities refused him permission to reenter the country. This is the kind of story that drives me nuts. Yes the law is the law and the law should be enforced, but there are details here that just sound mean.

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One of these days we will realize that the laws meant to keep Jimmy out will keep us in.

End the dole and end the need for “immigration control”!

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0601e.asp

Democracy Versus Freedom
by Jarret B. Wollstein, Posted May 1, 2006

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Vote fraud is massive, opposition candidates are often beaten or murdered by government thugs, and a small elite controls all power. Citizens have little freedom, but lots of poverty.

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If one looks at “voting”, perhaps we are going at this in all the wrong way.

In the US, we have lots of elections. Maybe we need “fewer”.

My thought is that we have a hierarchy of Municipality > County > State > Federal. Perhaps, we need Street -> Area added to the bottom.

My suggestion is that we on Tyne Court — all six houses have an election for Tyne Court Representative. Every named street does the same thing. Together they all comprise the Area of Upper Kendall Park. So, then Upper Kendall Park has an organizing election for representative. The Tyne Court rep gets to cast 17 votes (the total headcount who live on tyne Court) for a candidate.

So Tyne Court elects a rep, who elects an Upper kendall Park rep, who elects a municipal rep, who elects a county rep, who elects a state rep, who elects a federal rep, who elects a “king”.

;-)

Seriously fewer direct elections.

One man one vote is preserved by voting based on “proxies”.

I think it would be better than the nonsense we have now.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bylund6.html

A Strategy for Forcing the State Back
by Per Bylund

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What this combined strategy all boils down to is a decentralized, voluntary, spontaneous, and for-profit web of actors doing what they perceive as beneficial and thereby replacing most or all of the State’s functions. It provides also a solution to the problem of discussing only what’s wrong and what should be – through doing right where the State does wrong. It means action where it is most important and where it is most beneficial.

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We need to “fight this war” with decentralized internet-like tools. No one can succeed with a head2head fight with a gang that is bigger better armed and with the guise of legitimacy.

I’d add another dimension to the horizontal and vertical.

The laughter dimension.

We have to get people laughing at the gooferment’s ineptitude. We need to get them aghast at the innocent victims of its terror tactics. And, aggrieved at the injustices perpetrated on them.

IMHO that’s an important component of victory.

http://www.jpfo.org/fairtax.htm

The FAIRTAX: A TROJAN HORSE FOR AMERICA?
By Claire Wolfe & Aaron Zelman

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We’re likely to end up with both a national sales tax and an income tax. Even if legislation required abolition of the income tax (as HR 25 does), a “national crisis” would soon cause the income tax to be “temporarily re-instated” and the Internal Revenue Service would remain in our lives on an “emergency basis” that never ended.

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Sorry, but, I don’t trust the gooferment. Taxes, income – estate -sales, are nothing more than theft by an armed gang. And, while now, I don’t have the power to resist, I don’t agree with “putting lipstick” on this particular pig! The JPFO article makes many good points, not the least of which is that it conditions the sheep people to accept taxation by the government gang as legitimate. And, stealing from someone is never moral. If I did it, I go to jail. If you did it, you’d go to jail. But the government does it, that’s ok?

Nope, no fair tax for me. I’m not going to agree to being robbed. I might get robbed, but I’m not going to say “it’s ok”.